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2o PRIME

THE

STREET

MINISTER

10 December,

(;)

Lek,

1984

2A

Thank you for your message about the UN Law of the Sea Convention. As you know, we have always found the Convention's proposed mining regime unacceptable and have clearly indicated that, although some other parts might be of benefit to us, we would not be able to ratify or accede to the Convention unless the mining regime were changed. our policy and have found no

We have recently reviewed reason to change our decision We accordingly

announced

of two years ago not to sign.

in Parliament

on 6 December

that the

UK would not sign the Convention. We also announced that we would not stand in the way of signature of the Convention by the European Community, whose competence

as regards the Convention

is very limited.

(We

have naturally insisted that the limits of this competence and therefore of the Community's acceptance of the Convention,

should be carefully

on signature).

spelled out in declarations

As you know, the Federal Republic of Germany

took a similar decision. We now have a situation

in which three of the countries

most likely to be involved in deep sea bed mining have Other industrialised decided not to sign the Convention.

be d Etl-CTIC

theref3re

as a whole

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to accrept f-he r:ee--for

colIntries

we should

for the

incentive

continue

have

worked

for in the past.

to co-operate

on this

in the future.

L6-(JA-

The President

of the

United

States

of America

subject